Analysis of achieving success on Reddit by the Swaglords

• Question: How does Reddit Karma vary across various metrics?

• DataSets: Google BigQuery

Due to the extremely large size of the files, Google BigQuery, a SQL data querying cloud platform was used to quickly process large enough samples from our datasets

• Key Variables of Interest:

Time of post, post title, author, subreddit forum, karma (upvotes - downvotes), number of comments, and post/comment id’s

• Time Period: December 2014

• Methods:
  • In class: data wrangling (glyph-ready frames), data cleaning, ggplot, gandalf/batch commands, regex
  • Additional: igraph (network visualization), network, adjacency lists, BigQuery (Google cloud), SQL, bigrquery

Network graph of interactions on Reddit

Summary of results